LESLLA 19th Annual Symposium - Bridging the gap between research and practice with LESLLA Learners: challenges and opportunities
Barcelona, September 7-9, 2023
Barcelona, September 7-9, 2023
We welcome you to the site of the LESLLA 19th Annual Symposium Bridging the gap between research and practice with LESLLA Learners: challenges and opportunities.
The symposium is organized by the ELBEC research group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and will take place in Barcelona on September 7-9, 2023. The venue of the symposium will be the Residència d’investigadors in Barcelona (C/Hospital, 64). It will be an hybrid symposium: in person in Barcelona on Thursday September 7 and Friday September, 8 and virtual Saturday September, 9, 2023.
The symposium has three main goals:
To disseminate research on LESLLA learners
To bridge the gap between research on LESLLA learners and classroom practice
To discuss the connection research between research on LESLLA learners and teacher training
We invite researchers, teachers, and teachers trainers to submit proposals for papers and workshops on the following topics:
Second language acquisition for LESLLA learners
Pandemic-related teaching & learning (hybrid, remote, low-tech environments, etc.) LESLLA contexts
Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches and LESLLA learners
Role of volunteers in language and literacy support in LESLLA teaching and learning contexts
L1 literacy and LESLLA learners
Teaching tools including Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for LESLLA learners
LESLLA students’ literacy assessment, levels and placement
Multimodality and multiple literacies with LESLLA learners
Policies impacting LESLLA learners
Health literacy and LESLLA learners
LESLLA refugees and asylum seekers’ inclusion in hosting contexts
Professional development, teacher education, and/or volunteer teacher training to work with LESLLA learners
Minority languages and LESLLA learners
Task-based language teaching and LESLLA learners
This symposium is organized by the ELBEC research group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with the collaboration of LESLLA.
Contact: lesllabarcelona23@gmail.com
Scientific committee:
Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé - Universitat de Vic- Catalunya Central (Spain)
Larry Condelli - American Institute for Research (United States)
Kaatje Dalderop - University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Enas Filmban - Umm Al-Qura University (Saudi Arabia)
Giulia Grosso - Università degli studi di Cagliari (Italy)
Lisa Gonzalves - West Contra Costa Adult Education (United States)
Live Grinden - Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway)
Jeanne Kurvers - Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Jessica Mackay - Escola d'Idiomes Moderns - Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
Naymé Salas - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Marcin Sosinski - Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Martha Young-Scholten - Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Organizing committee:
Marilisa Birello - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Padia Serge Levy Coulibaly - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Alondra Camus - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Anastasia Lovtskaya - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Zimeng Miao - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Montserrat Pérez Ventayol - Independent teacher (Spain)
Tania Salguero - Universitat de Vic-Central de Catalunya (Spain)
Maria Teresa Sans Bertran - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Albert Vilagrasa - Escola Oficial d'Idiomes (Spain)
Xuan Wang - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
Bailin Zhu - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)
LESLLA Board